WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to cut the budget for the troubled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump well below this year's level and President Bush's request.

At the same time, lawmakers again rejected Bush's proposal to curb spending on water projects undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. But the president fared much better on his plans to send astronauts to Mars.

The moves came as the House adopted, by a 399-17 vote, a final House-Senate compromise on a $30.5 billion energy and water spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1.

Reflecting tight budget times, the bill is $750 million below this year's levels.

In rapid succession, the House adopted a second $57.9 billion compromise measure funding the budgets for the departments of Commerce, Justice and State, awarding a $260 million budget increase to NASA, funding Bush's plan to send astronauts back to the Moon and on to Mars.

The Commerce, Justice and State bill passed by a 397-19 vote. The programs funded by the bill would receive a 3 percent increase over 2005 funding levels. The FBI won a 10 percent budget increase but state and local governments would receive a 10 percent cut in law enforcement grants. Bush had sought far deeper cuts.

Negotiators on that measure also killed a House provision to block the FBI from routinely gaining access under the Patriot Act to library materials and bookstore sales. But a renewal of the Patriot Act before year's end is likely to achieve the same purpose.

The Yucca nuclear waste repository would be funded at $450 million for the 2006 budget year, $127 million below the level for each of the past two years.

Bill negotiators also ditched a controversial House plan to supplement Yucca with interim storage sites for nuclear waste.

The final figure was also less than the House and the Senate passed during earlier debates. More delays in the oft-delayed project caused lawmakers to curb Yucca Mountain's budget.

Those cuts helped free up funds for the Corps of Engineers, which received $5.6 billion, $1 billion above Bush's request. That includes $8 million requested by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for the Corps to design a plan to bring south Louisiana up to Category Five hurricane protection.